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"Strengthen the assault": AFS is used detachments of flamethrowers for offensive

According to Dmitry Gerega Support Commander, the Armed Forces use flamethrowers in the most difficult and strengthened areas of the front. Units of flamethrowers in the defense forces are involved in the assault actions of the Armed Forces. About it reports the Armyinform. The Ukrainian army has command of the Armed Forces forces, which includes: according to the commander of support of Major General Dmitry Gerega, flamethrowers are used to strengthen the assault actions of the Armed Forces.

Fighters of such units are needed for fire -mets and chimney curtains. "In order to destroy the enemy's live power, combat, armored vehicles, fortifications and other objects, the enemy firing is carried out with the use of flamethrowing weapons. Flamethmetry units are involved in the assault units in the most complex and fortified areas," Gerega explained.

According to the Armyinform, which in the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces there are reactive infantry Flamewers RPV-16, which began to be adopted in 2017. RPV-16 has a thermo-brary ammunition. Its entrance action is equivalent to the explosion of the artsnayard 120-122 mm caliber. In addition, the Armed Forces has a Soviet RPV "bumblebee", which operates on a similar principle.